Fastening means



y 1- J. A. MlLLER, JR 1,814,760

FASTENING MEANS Filed Oct. 16, 1929 MW ATTORNEY Patented July 14, 1931 UNITED STATES JAMES A. MILLER, JR NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK msrmvme mums Application filed October 16, 1929. Serial No. 899,970.

This invention relates to improvements in Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of a fasteners for connecting the overlapping edges of flexible articles, such as wearing apparel in which collar, wrist and waist bands are used.

Button holes in such garments are usually in the form of narrow slits, elongated in the direction of strain, and re-enforced by threads stitched repeatedly at their margins; when m the article is relatively new such button holes may be brought into registration, but, due to the inherent tendency of woven fabrics to shrink upon laundering, difliculty is often encountered to make both ends meet properly as time ensues.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a device for attaching ordinary commercial buttons of common type to the bands of such garments in a manner which permits of their use quite irrespective of any common degree of shrinkage which may take place.

A further feature is in the provision of an elastic tape to carry the button in a manner to avoid constriction of the band and means combined therewith to avoid-having the tape protrude into the button hole where it would be unsightly.

Another purpose is to produce a tape of elastic material carrying a button that may be used in connecting superposed flaps and which is also capable of engaging with other exterior obj ects, as a collar or cufi's.

These several advantageous objects are ac complished by the novel construction and combination of few and simple parts as hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings illustrating the essential portions of the invention, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a conventional collar and shirt showing an application of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional 5 view taken longitudinally through the button holes showing a button in position prior to shrinking of the band.

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the same but showing the material in a shrunk or contracted condition.

flap with a button in position therein.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of an article of underwear with the device applied.

A shirt front having sides 10 and 11 is indicated in Fig. 1, one of the sides being pro vided with an overlapping portion 12 rovided with button holes 13 to be engage by buttons 14 sewn on the underlying element of the shirt bosom.

Seamed to the upper edge of the shirt may be the inner doubled elements 15-15 of a permanently applied collar 16 or, as shown in Fig. 4, a collar band 17 as used with detachable collars.

Between the plies 15-45 is a lining 18 and through the lining and outer ply 15', in

the under tab 19, is a button hole 20, a corresponding button hole 21 being formed in the three plies of the outer tab 22.

Attached between the lining 18 and inner ply 15 of the collar is a strip of elastic tape 23, preferably held by stitches 24 and sewn on the free outer part of the tape is a button 25 suited to pass through the button holes 20 and 21.

Fixed on the extreme tip of the tape 23 is a metal cap 26 adapted to prevent the tape from entering or being drawn into or through the button holes.

If a band only is used, as in Fig. 4, an ordinary collar may be secured by the button 25 in the usual manner.

The arrangement of waist band 27 in Fig. clearly shows the upper button 28 of the fly to be held on a tape 29 of similar nature, sewn between the plies of the band, while therebelow a plain button is used in the ordinary manner. 7

From the foregoing it will be seen that notwithstanding the material shrinks very considerably, the band or collar may be extend ed to the limit of the button holes and all strain removed from the button, the securing stitches of which are supported by the elastic tape.

Although the foregoing is descriptive of the preferred embodiment of the invention, it will be apparent that minor changes may be made in the construction, without the exercise of invention or conflicting with the scope of the claims hereto appended.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 5 ters Patent, is

1. A connector, for a multi-ply band having button holes in its overlapping ends, comprising an elastic tape attached onl at one end to said band between the plys and remote from the button hole and in alinement therewith, a button carried on the free end portion of said tape to engage in both button holes when in register, and means on the free extremity of said tape to prevent the tape "from entering the button holes.

2. A connector, for a multi-ply band having button holes in its overlapping ends, comprising an elastic tape attached only at one end to said band between the plys and remote from the button hole and in ali-nement therewith, a button carried on the free end portion of said tape to engage in both button holes when in register, and a U shaped metallic clip fixed on the free end of said tape incapable of being drawn into the button holes.

3. The combination with a shrinkable mnlti-ply band for garments, wherein the free ends of the band are formed with button holes adapted to register when the ends are disposed in overlapping relation; of means for connecting the ends of the band together comprising an elastic tape secured only at one and between the plys of the underlying end of the band, remote from the button hole, a button attached to the free end portion of the elastic tape and adapted to extend through both button holes, and means on the tip of the free end of the elastic tape to prevent the latter from being pulled through the buttonholes when the ends of the band are buttoned.

Signed at New Yor in the county and State of New York, this 1st day of October,

JAMES A. MILLER, JR. 

